This is a tool which I can see being useful in a school setting. While I'm not going to go so far as to suggest a degree of action (such as, having teachers use it as a teaching tool vs. making it requirement for using school computer resources), I would think it would be wise for schools to attempt to integrate this tool (or a tool like it) into their practice. Again, even if the school stops short of making it a requirement, simply exposing the students to the material can create a platform upon which further ideas can be built.
My big gripe with the tool as is is that it lacks feedback. Specifically, as an educator, I can't see what questions were wrong and why and that severly limits my ability to use this test as a teaching tool. My guess is that, as the tool exists today, it does not draw from a randomized pool of questions but, rather, a set number of questions in a set order. This means that if the test were to give the answers then everyone would end up with 100%'s and we would have the exact opposite problem. The solution to this quandry is for brighter minds than myself.
That said, I see this as having immense potential to the point that I can see this (or something like it) being part of a school's digital policy to ensure that their students, and their teachers, are capable digital citizens. Whether this takes the form of required testing or simply acts as a platform on which a learning unit could be built should be left up to the individual learning community. Again, though, I cannot stress that I think this tool is a step in the right direction and would like to see its development continue.
This is a tool which I can see being useful in a school setting. While I'm not going to go so far as to suggest a degree of action (such as, having teachers use it as a teaching tool vs. making it requirement for using school computer resources), I would think it would be wise for schools to attempt to integrate this tool (or a tool like it) into their practice. Again, even if the school stops short of making it a requirement, simply exposing the students to the material can create a platform upon which further ideas can be built.
My big gripe with the tool as is is that it lacks feedback. Specifically, as an educator, I can't see what questions were wrong and why and that severly limits my ability to use this test as a teaching tool. My guess is that, as the tool exists today, it does not draw from a randomized pool of questions but, rather, a set number of questions in a set order. This means that if the test were to give the answers then everyone would end up with 100%'s and we would have the exact opposite problem. The solution to this quandry is for brighter minds than myself.
That said, I see this as having immense potential to the point that I can see this (or something like it) being part of a school's digital policy to ensure that their students, and their teachers, are capable digital citizens. Whether this takes the form of required testing or simply acts as a platform on which a learning unit could be built should be left up to the individual learning community. Again, though, I cannot stress that I think this tool is a step in the right direction and would like to see its development continue.